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Tuesday, December 17, 2013

David Nutter...and family...

I have West Virginia roots…deep roots that stretch back to
the 1700’s. I can’t say that they have
been all that difficult to find because my great grandmother had pretty good
notes about her family’s ancestry. What
has been difficult, is to ascertain which family belongs with which.

One of these confusing family lines is that of my 4th
great grandmother Elizabeth “Betsy” Nutter.
Anyone who has spent any time in genealogical research has to realize
that Elizabeth might be one of the most common names and the most common
nickname was Betsy. Betsy was born on 21
Jun 1790 in Monroe Co., VA today, WV.
She died on 20 Apr 1869 in Leander, Fayette Co., WV. On 19 Apr 1810, she married Thomas Jefferson
Legg in Monroe Co., VA. She was daughter
of David Nutter who was most likely born in 1769 in Somerset Co., MD and died
in 1851 in Nicholas Co., VA (WV). You
might say, that David Nutter is probably one of the main causes of all the
confusion.

David married Ruth Cottle on 13 Jan 1789 in Monroe Co.,
VA. She was the daughter of William
Cottle and his wife Elizabeth. They
quickly, as was customary, started their family and had 10 children between 1790
and 1810 when she died on 10 July 1810 probably from childbirth with her
youngest daughter, Malinda. She was
buried at the Old Rehoboth Methodist Church in in Union, Monroe Co., WV – you can
view what is left of her gravestone at http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=22084644

Hannah b. 1793 d. aft 1870 (As far as I know…she never
married but still had five children)

Jane Nutter b. abt 1795 d. Sep 1871 m. Steven O’Dell

William b. abt 1799 d. aft 1850 m. Elizabeth Curren m2
Margaret Jones

Ruth E. Nutter b. 1 Dec 1801 d. 30 Jan 1876 m. Hiram Pierson

Nancy Myra Nutter b. 1802 d. 1848 m. Samuel Dorsey, Sr

David Nutter, Jr b. 1807 d. aft 1880 m. Leah Buckle

Malinda Nutter b. 1810 d. Feb 1850 m. John Duffy McClung

Seven years after the death of his wife, David Nutter
married Christina O’Dell on 3 Aug 1817, daughter of Jeremiah O’Dell and Rachel
Walters. She was b. 28 Jan 1790 and d.
19 Aug 1891. She was just five months
older than David’s oldest daughter.

Within these 17 children of David Nutter, you can find some
of the most prominent families of Nicholas & Fayette Co., WV. My own family includes Nutter, Legg,
Pitsenbarger, Amick and Shawver but O’Dell, Dorsey, Brown, and McClung are also
prominent families. If you go a little
deeper, you will also find Ramsey, and Walker. The lines get even more tangled the more you
dig in. You might say that David Nutter
with his 17 children was definitely one of the founding fathers of Nicholas and
Fayette Co., WV.